Improvement in concentrating the juice of tomatoes



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CHRIST P ER 'r. rRovosT, onNnW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 104,494, dated June 21, 1870.-

Y IMPROVEMENT IN CONCENTRATING THE .nncn or a'omAa'oizs.

Tool! whom it may cont-em; l

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER Pnovos'r, of

l the city, county, and State of New York, have in vented a new andimproved Process of Concentrat- 'ing Tomatoes; and I'do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andtexact description thereof,

which tilt-enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

This invention hasffor its object so to prepare tomatoes forpreservaticu that only the nutritious and aromatic matter, but none of the useless bulk or body, will be retained. The fruit, can thereby be preserved in the mostconcentratked form, and will not occupy My'nvent'ion consistsv in treating the tomatoes'in the following manner: a

' The ripe fruit is, between two perforated plates, or

a in other suitable machinery, compressed, so that the juice will be entirely separated from the skins of fruit and seed TheSschednle referred to in theseliettera Patent and making part of the same.

The juice contains all the nutritious and aromatic ingredients of the fruit, while the skins of fruit and seed are indigest-ible.

The juice is then, in a suitable vessel, exposed to the action of heat, to evaporate the superfluous water. An extract or tomato-syrup is thus obtained which contains all that is'-vah1ed of the fruit in the most condensed form.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenta 1. The herein-described tomatoes, as set forth. I

' 2. The concentrated tomato-juice, prepared substantially as herein specified.

CHRISTOPHER T. PROVOST.

process of concentrating Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, V ALEX. .F. Ronnnrs. 

